Every now and then some admin somewhere gets asked to blast out a message to all of the remote access users informing them of something really, really important.  While we have the ability for user home pages to have such customized messages displayed, there are just so many users out there today that aren’t set up for traditional Core Access and instead go straight to Network Connect.  Soooo… in order to allow the admins to now get the message out in a timely fashion, this feature allows a message to be displayed in a separate dialog box, nearly ensuring that the e-mail that 50% of the users have ignored for the past week informing them of your planned downtime can now get through to them.  Every little bit counts and I’m pleased that we can do our part to help.

Note that this covers pre and post authentication events, not providing dynamic messaging after the user has signed in, i.e. 4 hours into an 8 hour session.